Alcova, Wyoming.
Typical home $342,088 (+8.7% in a year). Casper, WY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,045 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,439 +9%
- $314,649$342,088 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $96,495 +39%
- $245,593$342,088 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Alcova$1,796
- Wyoming$1,937
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Alcova, WY rose 8.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alcova, Natrona County, Wyoming
Alcova, in Natrona County, had 34 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Natrona County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Natrona County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Alcova is a small community in Natrona County, Wyoming, where most people know their neighbors and the pace of life is quiet. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with modest rainfall over the year. Homes here tend to sit among open, dry country, and the town's setting makes the seasons feel distinct.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops and retail. Others work in professional and business services, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Much of the work is found in nearby towns and in the wider county.
Things to do. Pathfinder Reservoir is a short drive away and is a popular spot for water-based outings. Fort Caspar, a fort, and the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center, a museum, are both a longer drive away and offer a look at the region's history, including the westward trails of the nineteenth century.
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What people in Natrona County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Natrona County had 40,157 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 58°. About 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pathfinder Dam weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Natrona County
- Natrona County School District #1School district2,134FTE
- City of CasperGeneral accounting offices, government740
- Wyoming Medical CenterGeneral hospital727FTE
- Casper CollegeTwo-year college507
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters372
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters359
- Wyoming Machinery CompanyHeavy equipment sales, rental and service256
- Empres Operated By EvergreenNursing homes209
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 71 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,777 people in all across the county; Alcova has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alcova’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Natrona County and the Casper, WY metro.
Alcova home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alcova$342,088
- Wyoming$369,044
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Alcova address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alcova — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.